The main thing at the moment

• On the night of May 3, Russian cruise missiles hit the infrastructure of Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv and Zakarpattia regions.

• Missile strikes on Odessa and Donetsk regions were also carried out by other means.

• 220 Ukrainian children died under Russian shelling.

• Britain has promised multimillion-dollar military aid to Ukraine.

• Evacuation buses from Mariupol arrived in Zaporizhia.

  More than 150 people arrived.

• An evacuation is being carried out at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol for the third day.

  Hundreds of civilians and wounded Ukrainian servicemen remain in the basement of the plant.

• Ukrainians destroyed two Russian boats near Snake Island by Bayraktars.

• According to the Pentagon and US intelligence, Russian Chief of Staff Gerasimov visited the front line in Izyum, Kharkiv region, to change the course of the offensive.

Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.

What happens on May 3 and 4

Russian troops fired 18 missiles at the cities of Ukraine from the Caspian region

These missiles hit the infrastructure of Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv and Zakarpattia regions.

Missile strikes on Odessa and Donetsk regions were also carried out by other means.

According to the command of the Ukrainian Air Force, Russian Tu-95 or Tu-160 bombers from the Caspian region struck.

Mayor of Lviv: Russian missile strike damaged two power substations

As a result of a missile strike by Russian troops on Lviv in the evening of May 3, two power substations were damaged, there is no light in part of the city, said Mayor Andrei Sadovy.

As a result of the missile strike, according to preliminary information, one person was injured, Sadovy said.

Rescuers put out the fire at one of the power substations.

Missile strike in the Kirovohrad region

The head of the Dolyna city territorial community of the Kirovohrad region reports about the "arrival" of the rocket.

The head of the Zakarpattia regional administration Viktar Mikita reports about explosions in the mountainous part of the region: “A rocket arrived at a facility in the mountainous region of Zakarpattia.

Services are working on the spot, we are clarifying information about injuries and possible victims. "

Ukrainian media write that two rockets were shot down over Vinnytsia, this was confirmed by the head of the Vinnytsia Regional Military Administration Sergei Borzov.

Attack on Odessa

Missile strikes in the Odessa region: three missiles were shot down by air defense forces, according to the Ukrainian operational command "South".

It is also known that two missiles fired from the Caspian direction hit the railway infrastructure of the Kirovohrad region, there are dead and wounded.

The head of the Dnipropetrovsk region administration Valiantsin Raznichenka reports about the strikes on the railway infrastructure in Kamensky district (district west of Dnipropetrovsk - ed.) And writes about one wounded.

According to him, the movement of trains has been stopped.

Russian troops strike at railway stations

On the evening of May 3, the head of the Ukrainian Railways Alexander Kamyshin reported six strikes on railway stations in central and western Ukraine.

According to him, 14 trains are delayed in this connection.

Infrastructure damage is severe, Kamyshin said.

The Russians fired on a coke plant in Avdeevka, Donetsk region

As a result of the shelling, according to operative figures, at least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded.

The information is being clarified, and the number of victims may be higher, according to the head of the Donetsk regional military administration Pavel Kirilenko.

According to him, the workers had just finished their shift and were waiting at the bus stop to take them home from the factory.

In the Donetsk region for the day killed 21 civilians - the head of the administration

The head of the Ukrainian administration of the Donetsk region Pavel Kirilenko said that on May 3 in the region under Russian shelling killed 21 civilians, and this is the largest number of victims in the day after the missile attack on Kramatorsk station on April 8 - then killed 52 people.

According to Kirilenko, 10 people died on Tuesday at the Avdeevka Coke Plant, five in Liman, four in Vuhlyadar and one more in two other settlements.

27 civilians of the Ukrainian part of the Donetsk region were injured during the day.

Evacuation buses from Mariupol arrived in Zaporizhia

As reported on the air of the all-Ukrainian TV marathon #URAzom, these are the first buses with civilians to be in the bomb shelter of the Azovstal plant.

156 people arrived.

New assault "Azovstal"

At noon on May 3, a new assault began at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, where about 200 civilians and 500 wounded soldiers remain.

Earlier, Russian President Putin promised not to storm the plant.

However, after his words, the shelling and assault attempts continue.

In recent days, several hundred civilians have been evacuated from Mariupol, rescuing them from the war-torn region.

Kyiv: there are no signs of a new offensive from Belarus

"In the Volyn, Polesie and Seversk directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action, no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found," - said in a summary of the Ukrainian military command at 6 am on May 3.

On April 30, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that they did not rule out provocations by Russia on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.

It was also noted that "there is a threat of enemy missile strikes on military and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine."

Already 626 children became victims of the war

Most children were affected in Donetsk region (139), Kyiv (115), Kharkiv (95), Chernihiv (68), Kherson (45), Mykolaiv (43), Luhansk (37), Zaporizhia (27), Sumy (17) regions. , in Kiev (16) and in the Zhytomyr region (15).

The United Kingdom promises another $ 375 million in military aid to Ukraine

The United Kingdom has said it will provide Ukraine with 300 million pounds ($ 375 million) in military aid, including electronic warfare equipment and a counter-battery radar system, in addition to about 200 million pounds, according to Reuters.

Britain has sent more than 5,000 anti-tank missiles and five air defense systems to Ukraine, as well as other ammunition and explosives since the February 24 Russian invasion.

UN: At least 3,193 civilians have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the war

According to the latest data from the Office of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, as of midnight on May 2, at least 3,193 people had died in Ukraine, including 227 children;

3353 people were injured, including 321 children.

According to UN estimates, in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the territory controlled by Ukraine, 1562 civilians were killed, and in the territory of unrecognized "republics" - 101 civilians.

The UN has repeatedly stressed that the real numbers can be much higher, as information from areas of active hostilities, as well as occupied areas comes very late, and information about the dead requires verification.

Refugees from the war

More than 5.563 million people have fled Russia since Ukraine's invasion, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

According to the Office, more than 3 million people left for Poland, almost 826,000 people went to Romania, and more than 530,000 went to Hungary.

According to the UN, more than 681,000 people were deported to Russia.

Ukrainian authorities claim that the occupiers are forcibly removing Ukrainian citizens.

About 5 million Ukrainians are now internally displaced.

The population of Ukraine (including Russian-controlled territory) is about 44 million people.

What is happening in Russia

Explosions in the Belgorod region of Russia again

The governor of the Belgorod region

confirmed that two strong "slaps" could be heard in the region.

He told Telegram.

“I woke up from two strong breaks.

According to the operational headquarters, there is no damage or destruction.

There are no victims.

Footage of the flash in the sky has already appeared on social networks.

The most important thing is that without casualties and destruction.

The rest of the information will be clarified in the morning. "

Belarus' participation in the war

Belarus has allowed Russia to use its territory to attack Ukraine from the north;

Russians use Belarusian airfields for flights and Belarusian sites for rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities.

At the same time, Belarusians are fighting on the side of Ukraine in various formations.

A battalion named after Kastus Kalinouski has been created.

How the world reacts

The United Kingdom will send 13 units of armored vehicles to Ukraine to evacuate people from the east

Also, the cars will be used to transport officials from Ukrainian ministries to temporary command posts.

They can withstand bullets, anti-personnel mines and improvised explosive devices.

This latest transfer of armored vehicles will help protect civilians trying to flee Russian shelling, and will support Ukrainian officials in their vital work, said on May 3, British Foreign Secretary Liz Trass.

NATO will help Ukraine move from Soviet-era weapons to modern ones

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said the alliance is ready to support Ukraine in the war against Russia, even if the war drags on for years.

According to him, NATO will help Kiev to modernize Soviet-era weapons to the level of Western military equipment.

The United States, NATO's largest member, has already handed over $ 3 billion in weapons to Ukraine since Russia's large-scale invasion.

The US military is training Ukrainians in Germany

The training is being conducted by the Florida National Guard, which was part of the Joint Multinational Study Group in western Ukraine and was forced to leave the country due to the growing threat of a Russian invasion in February.

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Russia's war against Ukraine

• At 5 am on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbas at the request of the DNR and LNR groups.

  On February 21, during a televised address to the Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

  On February 22, the Federation Council ratified the decision.

• All the days of the war are shelling Ukrainian cities with missiles, flying aircraft.

  Russian troops are attacking, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads.

  Representatives of the Lukashenko regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus occupied and calls for resistance to Russian invaders.

• On February 27, the International Legion of Territorial Defense was established in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were encouraged to join.

  Belarusians also entered there.

  During the two months of the war, four Belarusian volunteers and soldiers of the USU were killed at the front: 31-year-old Alyaksei Skoblya, call sign "Tour", 27-year-old Ilya Litvin from the Belarusian Territorial Defense Company of the Azov Battalion, Dmitry Apanasovich (call sign "Terror"). and Dmitry Rubashevsky "Hans".

• On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

  It included people who worked in the conflict in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Contrary to Putin's claims of attacks exclusively on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

  The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs against civilians.

• The number of refugees from Ukraine has exceeded 5 million people.

  Poland received the most refugees from Ukraine - almost 3 million, Romania - about 800 thousand.

  Russia is listed on the third line with more than half a million people, but in Ukraine, based on conversations with the population of the occupied cities, they claim that people are taken there by force, actually kidnapping and often separating families, taking children.

• On April 1, Lithuania became the first EU country to completely abandon Russian gas.

  Latvia and Estonia followed suit.

  Germany has promised to completely suspend the use of Russian oil by the end of 2022.

• On April 2, after the liberation of the city of Bucha near Kiev, photojournalists published dozens of photos showing hundreds of the dead, victims of massacres committed by Russian troops.

  Many are buried in natural mass graves.

  The Russian occupation and Borodyanka brought great destruction.

  A number of rapes, including infants, are also known.

• In April, the Russians launched a large-scale attack on the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, conquering about 80% of their territory, according to the head of the Luhansk regional administration Sergei Gaidai.

  Fighting is also going on in the Kherson region.

• Fighting continues in Mariupol, near the Azovstal plant, which holds the Ukrainian army.

  Russia seeks to establish full control over the city.

• In early April, Ukraine and Western countries estimated Russia's losses in the war at 15-20 thousand killed.

  The Kremlin says the figure is ten times lower, although Putin's spokesman acknowledged that the losses were "significant".

  In March, Ukraine claimed 1,300 of its dead defenders.

  President Zelensky said that the ratio of losses of Ukraine and Russia in this war is "one to ten."

• The surviving Russian units withdrew from Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy oblasts in early April after failing to capture any major cities there.

• In April, missile attacks on Ukraine and air strikes from Belarus decreased, Russian troops left Belarus.

• Since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 23 Ukrainian and foreign journalists have been killed.

• In Mariupol, after the evacuation, about 200 civilians still remain on Azovstal.

  On May 3, Russia launched a new assault on the plant.

  The night before, two bombs were dropped, killing two women.

• Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.